A Texas jury convicted a man Thursday who prosecutors say was posing as a physician and involved in a $1.3 million Medicare fraud scheme.

Rex Duruji, 56, of Houston, was convicted for conspiracy to commit healthcare fraud, conspiracy to pay healthcare kickbacks and healthcare fraud following a four-day federal trial in Texas, the Justice Department said. Duruji served as a patient recruiter for a former company known as Koby Home Health, according to a court document.

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From January 2012 until May 2015, he posed as a licensed physician but did not have a medical license in Texas, prosecutors said. Duruji sought to have Medicare recipients sign up for home health services with Koby Home Health that were not provided and paid illegal cash kickbacks to the beneficiaries for those claims, according to prosecutors.

It is unclear if he will seek an appeal. An attorney for Duruji did not immediately return a request for comment.